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interspaces, a black spot below the cell, three white spots beyond the cell, and a 

 recurved discal series, a submarginal indistinct black luaular fascia : hindwing with 

 costal border purple washed, a black, discocellular mark, a submarginal row of 

 black-bordered scarlet spots, and a marginal row of black spots, the three apical and 

 anal spots being bordered externally with scarlet. Underside : forewing greenish 

 purple-brown, suffused with ochreous-brown apically, markings more prominent than 

 above : hindwing ochreous-brown, greenish-brown anally, the scarlet spots very 

 prominent and with scarcely any black border, the costal margin, two discoidal 

 black-bordered spots, and two above them, are also scarlet. Female. Forewing 

 with a medial transverse outwardly-oblique irregular macular greenish-white band, 

 and three small subapical spots, a dull scarlet discoidal mark : hindwing marked as 

 in male. Underside : forewing greyish-purple at base, apex ochreous-brown, 

 posterior angle greenish-grey, macular white band and spots as above, two scarlet- 

 streaked black discoidal marks and two basal spots : hindwing ochreous-grey, 

 greenish-grey anally, scarlet markings as in male but less distinct, and the posterior 

 submarginal spots nearly obsolete. 



Expanse, ^ 2|, ? 3 inches. 



Larva green, with ten pair of long green laterally projectiug very dehcate 

 branched spines, each pair tipped with crimson ; a large dorsal purple spot centred 

 with white on back of the fourth, sixth, seventh, and ninth to twelfth segments ; 

 head spotted with black. Papa short, green, keeled along the back and broadly 

 triangular across the middle ; a pale line along the keel and across the middle, a red 

 lateral line and thoracic spots. Feeds on Loranthus. 



Occurs in the same districts as D. Evelina, and has similar habits, the flight 

 being quicker and stronger " {Hutchison). 



EUTHALIA GAEUDA (Plate 16, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Adolias Garuda, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 186 (1857) ; Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1859, p. 64, pi. 3, f. 2, ^9. 



Male. Upperside dark olive-brown, basal area dusky : forewing with three 

 black-lined discoidal marks and streak below the cell, a series of three, or five, 

 transverse upper discal white dentate spots, two smaller spots on costal margin 

 before the apex, a submarginal suffused dusky fascia: hindwing suffused with pink 

 on anterior border, a discal curved dentate dusky band, two black-lined discoidal 

 marks, a submarginal row of small black spots, Underside light greyish- brown, 

 greyest at the base and apex, marked as above but less distinct. Female paler 

 olive-brown, generally suffused with ochreous, markings as in male, except that 



